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WezTerm seems nice in a lot of ways, but it's got some odd quirks, like how it lacks menus on macOS or how on Linux, it uses a hyperminimalist tiling-WM-style t
by kitsunesoba 4y ago
WezTerm seems nice in a lot of ways, but it's got some odd quirks, like how it lacks menus on macOS or how on Linux, it uses a hyperminimalist tiling-WM-style titlebar instead of whatever your WM furnishes.
This makes it seem pretty squarely targeted at i3/Sway/vim sorts of users, which doesn't make it bad but an odd fit for more general users.
- anta40 4y agoI tried WezTerm for a few months on MacOS. No problem so far (my use case is pretty minimal, e.g tab 1 for compiling, tab 2 for code editing, tab 3 for SSH, etc), except lacking of GUI for user configuration. You need to understand Lua for that: https://wezfurlong.org/wezterm/config/files.html https://wezfurlong.org/wezterm/config/files.html Eventually I uninstalled it and back to iTerm2. Maybe one day I'll learn Lua and use it again.
- pohl 4y agoI installed the nightly version yesterday, and was pleased to see menus On macOS.
- dmytrish 4y agoI feel like WezTerm has a vision of being something bigger than a traditional VT emulator. It feels more like an environment to live in, an Emacs of terminal emulators, with its own tiling, status bar, dynamic scripting, builin Lua console, programmable events, very rich graphics. It's not a faithful old-school TTY emulator like xterm, it's not featureful, but boring Konsole, it's not ascetic but fast Alacritty. It's an experiment. I don't personally like all of its design decisions, but an Emacs-like vibe really intrigues and attracts me.